NEWCASTLE’S next Alan Shearer could be lacing up donated football boots from a local Newcastle church group this summer. ‘Grassboots’ is the latest community project by a Life Vineyard Church in Marley Hill which gives footwear including football boots and school shoes to those in need. So far around 150 […]
ELECTRIC CARGO BIKES are helping a North Tyneside business to cut down their carbon emissions on local deliveries while saving time and money with support from North Tyneside council. Bike4health, a community interest company based in North Tyne industrial estate, made their first delivery last week using an Urban Arrow […]
ANTISOCIAL behaviour was the most frequent crime in the North East during lockdown, in a period spanning from April 2020-March 2021. This particular crime accounted for 34.1% of all crimes in the North East during this period, with 110,000 crimes being committed. The North East has seen a huge rise […]
A COMMUNITY food and flower garden is being set up in Heaton by a Newcastle university student, who aims to make use of the concrete streets and empty backyards to grow vegetables and other plants. JAKUB Konieczynski, a 31-year-old Ecology and Conservation student at Newcastle University, estimates that there is […]
NEWCASTLE University societies are failing to adapt to a successful online style, following coronavirus restrictions. A year after initial social-distancing advice, some societies, such as Newcastle University’s Physics society, are still struggling. Membership, President of the Physics Society Michael McGrory says, is the hardest to retain. In a statement released […]
The number of children treated for eating disorders in Newcastle dropped by 59 per cent during the coronavirus pandemic compared with 2019, according to data obtained by SR News. A FREEDOM of Information (FOI) request to Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) revealed that in 2020, just 31 children aged […]
SINCE April 12, outdoor drinking in beer gardens has officially been back and it has been great for the customers. However, the bar and nightclub industry has faced somewhat of a drastic change since the first lockdown back in March 2020. The rule of six, facemasks, sanitising stations and […]
New figures obtained by SR News show students made up a tiny minority of North East households checked by police for suspected Covid lockdown breaches last year. But we also found dissatisfaction among some students about the way their community was policed during Covid. STUDENT households accounted for less […]
OUT-OF-DATE microchips and low lost dog reclaim rates during the COVID-19 pandemic are putting pressure on North East animal rescue organisations. Catherine Gillie, Regional Manager at Dogs Trust, told SR News: “Between August 2020 and January 2021 there was a 41 per cent increase in the number of visits to […]
THE number of crimes being committed online slightly dropped during last years first national lockdown, according to figures released by Northumbria Police to SR News following a Freedom of Information request (FOI). WHEN the nation entered it’s first national lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the number of online crimes […]